How did the word ‘right’ come to mean both a direction and ‘correct’?

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How did the word ‘right’ come to mean both a direction and ‘correct’?

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Answer 1

You can find all answers to these type of questions by googling ‘etymology + /whatever you want to know the etymology of/’. There are a lot of nice sites depending on which language you’re searching in, including Wiktionary and etymonline.